THE EGG

What happens after we die? Some believe in reincarnation, some believe that we go to heaven, or hell, others believe we just... die. Nobody living truly has the answer, it’s not something we can prove but others have given deciding what happens after death a go, beyond personal beliefs like religion. One of these people is Andy Weir who wrote ‘The Egg’ retold on the ‘Kurzgesagt- in a nutshell’ YouTube channel but also notably before that on the rapper ‘Logic’s’ 2017 album ‘Everybody’.

Though there are various retellings, the story is told in 2nd person. It starts by telling you that you were in a car accident, there was a skidding truck and you died. That’s when you met God. In a place that goes beyond time and space. You ask ‘God’ about your wife and children and he is glad that your first worry after you find out you have died is about those you love. Your kids will always think of you fondly as they had not grown old enough to have their view of you tainted and your wife will feel guilty about feeling relieved that you are gone.

None of that matters now. You are in a waiting room. Waiting for rebirth.

God tells you that all religions got it right in their own way. When you are reborn, all the knowledge and information about your past lives is within you, and if you were to wait inside the waiting room for long enough, it’ll return to you.

Logic’s version of the story is seen from the point of view of two lives after the original story is told. Where the man is sent back in time to 540 AD to be a Chinese peasant girl. However, in the version you’ll here on the track ‘Waiting room’, you are a black man in Chicago who’s past life was as the Chinese girl but now is about to become the 8th Lord Fairfax of Cameron…whose son will free the slaves. You question yourself, God is going to send you back in time? But where this God comes from the construct of time is not so linear, in fact it only exists in this universe. We wouldn’t understand where this God came from even if we tried.

In the Egg story, we are told that the meaning of life, the meaning of this whole universe, is for you to grow and mature. Just you. When you are reincarnated in different spaces in time, you interact with yourself. Every act of hatred you commit against another, you commit against yourself. Every act of love you commit, you commit unto yourself. You were Jesus and all his disciples; you were Hitler and the many he killed. Every life you live you grow and mature into a better, wiser person and once you have lived every human life that ever lived or ever will live you will become like God. For now, you are just a foetus… you still have much growing to do until you can be truly born. This whole universe is simply an egg.

God sends you back into your next life. The story ends. If this has any truth to it, then you are reading your own writings now, an interesting concept indeed.

BY ANASTACIA ALLAN